“No one forgets his pain, that’s a lie. It’s buried there in memory and remains in you forever.”

“The Fallen∞Now that it’s over,My worlds forever changed.Without you, I feel empty,All this pain, still remains.”

“The most perfect memories are the ones too painful to forget.”

“Much of that afternoon remains an intense blur: Maybe extremes of pleasure and pain are just too much for the memory to handle, which is why we forget. ”

“I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.”

“But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.”